Can we wait until the guy is sworn in first, please?

~Zoo

It's hard to Zoo when all this stuff is happening NOW. 

Actually, I believe his spiritual advisor is Joel Hunter. He's gone to him a bit more than three times.

i'm more concerned about getting a group of economists to explain the financial crisis to the American people. i just hope he isn't getting spiritual advice on the taxpayer's dime because that is a private matter.

What?  And waste 2 months of "I told you so"s?

A homosexual priest/pastor/reverend. Isn't that like a contradition? That's like a Black person being racist against Black people because they are Black.

BTW, we will see change, I'm sure one of Obama's priorities is changing the bowling room for a basketball court in the White House.

It's interesting to see people not wanting to point out Obama's "slips" just because he is not the President just yet. Last I check he was voted in to be President and while he may not be the President just yet, everything he does today will reflect on him afetr Jan 20th.

Who is Joel Hunter?  Haven't heard this yet. 

He might as well be President right now with all the news about him.  I'm seeing/hearing more about Obama than Bush. 

I've never seen such hoopla surrounding an incoming Prez like this.  Usually they're elected and that's it until Jan 20th for the most part.  It's almost as if Obama or his people are trying to push Bush out before his time.  I heard a quote from Bush who said, "I'm still the President" as if some needed to be reminded. 

I hear a lot of people saying they wish Obama could be President right now so that Bush can just go already. What I don't get is if people love this country so much why do they feel the need to change everything just change sake? Since when did this become a "minority wins" country? I always thought things had to go based on majority decision. They got him elected, isn't that enough? They don't seemt o wanna wait for Obama to either screw everything up with his policies or go against everything he promissed in order to save this country.

the devil is always in a hurry! 

And yet, here we are rambling on about appointments, advisors, and various other structural measures that are indicative but not substantial in the arguement about change.  You can't argue that his promise of change has not been met after only a short amount of time and due to the fact that he is still President-Elect.  What he does today is preparation for a smooth transition.  What he is not doing today is implementing policies of change nor is he destroying your precious lives.

BTW, good for Obama.  Pick whomever you want to be a spiritual advisor.  Last I checked, we had freedom of religion in this nation.

Listen to Zoo everybody!!

What you seem to fail to notice is that a man who claimed we needed change from the same old politics is chosing people who have already been in Gov't positions before. Why not give a new person a chance to prove themselves with fresh new ideas and less corruption just like the American people chose to give the new guy a chance to run the country? If you can somehow prove to me this is change then I will keep my mouth shut from here on, but "last I checked" (I like that phrase) change means something different not using or doing the same thing.

What he does today gives a glimps of what he will be like once he is President. Chosing the same people is not change. But I doubt you will agree since you seem to wanna defend him even when it's obvious he is not doing what he said he would do even before he takes over.

Actually if you think about it, picking people who have already done these jobs before to do them again pretty much means he is already implementing policies, they just won't take effect till after Jan 20th. Tell me this, if you had a daughter, would you allow her to marry a guy without getting to know him first or if you see things in him that don't point towards a person of good character? Or would you wait till they are married and realize you should never have allowed this to happen once you got to know him and realized he was wrong for her (assuming he is)?

Hmmm, where is anyone saying he can't choose? This is not about whther he can choose or not but of who he chose. Look, regardless of how high you may see Obama (maybe sitting next to God), he is just another American like you and me and he was given (not inherited) the right to run the country by the people which means we have the right to watch and criticize him as we see fit. Just like Obama has freedom, so do we.

I hear him, I just don't always pay attention to what he says.

Again, Charles, this comes down to the fact that what you forsee happening due to people he has chosen will not necessarily happen.  Look, just because the people who Obama has chosen have been in government before doesn't mean that it is not change.  You're looking at the message wrong, or at least you must have been not paying much attention during the debates, speeches, interviews, etc.  The message was clear, quit with the same old politics of the Bush administration.  Reverting back to a Clintonesque presidency is a much better alternative than the shit we've been putting up with for 8 ridiculous years.  Granted Clinton wasn't the best of presidents either, but at least those years were better than the most recent 8.

You seem to think I hold Obama on this pedestal like the crazed fans without any idea or purpose.  I'm a proud liberal.  I lean to the left on most issues.  I see that we are both trying to be rational here, but I think instead of expecting a complete overhaul of the government, change means getting rid of that nonsense we have had going on in the oval office.  It always did mean that, it was meant for the hard times the American people have been facing.

While using that example of getting to know someone dating your child before marriage, don't you give them an expectation and then an opportunity to prove themselves without scrutiny.  Why don't you follow your own tactics and stop expecting failure about a job that people haven't even started performing yet?

Bush did that - from the most unethical administration in recent memory, to one of the most ethical. I hope Obama's change is not going back to the corruption of the clintons.